Kristin Scott Thomas
Kristin Scott Thomas
Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas, DBEis an English actress. She won the Best Supporting Actress BAFTA Award for Four Weddings and a Funeraland received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for The English Patient. For her work in the theatre, she has been nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress five times, winning in 2008 for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth24 May 1960
Kristin Scott Thomas quotes about
travel insecure people
If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.
actresses ashamed difficult
I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
safe-environment safety parent
I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am.
sticks shooting film
I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
vision acting months
Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
adorable want
I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.
pigs scotland sheep
If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.
film
Films are just consumables.
depression should-have mental-illness
You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.
cannes-film-festival political different
The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.
size different shapes
We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.
opposites people interest
Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.
english-actress happiness people sort
I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.